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Meeting. We have a very big meeting at 3 30. I call it an economic meeting, something we have to do to protect our steel, our aluminum in our country. Chief economist gary cohn, who is resigning in opposition to the president s plan. This is gary cohns last meeting in the cabinet and of the cabinet and he has been terrific. He may be a globalist but i still like him. He is seriously a globalist, no question. But in a way he is a nationalist because he loves our country. Where is gary . You love ...

Stormy danielss lawyer is on an airplane at this moment we hope to hear from him as soon as he lands, but i want to bring you something else. Which is what general barry mcka friday said tonight hes going to be our first guest and i want to get your reaction to what he said, he tweeted reluctantly i have concluded that President Trump is a serious threat to u. S. National security. He is refusing to protect vital u. S. Interests from active russian attacks, it is apparent he is for some unknown ...

Mueller has been willing to use fairly aggressive tactics to get his hands on information and evidence and even people that he and his team think are relevant to their investigation. There was famously the noknock search warrant that the mueller team executed on former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manaforts house in virginia. That was in the wee hours of the morning one day last summer. They picked the lock, they stormed in, they took binders full of documents and computer files. Paul manaforts ...

Trying to piece them together like a jigsaw puzzle. That would be an unusual first call between new heads of state, a congratulatory phone call to be bragging about the relative value of each countrys hookers would be an unusual i think thats a fair statement. There is also the admission that the president doubted the judgment of his own National Security advisor. His preoccupation with the steele dossier, an obsession with Andrew Mccabe and the insinuation by trump that he had an undisclosed co...

Sprint. The former Campaign Manager Cory Lewandowski was seen leaving a hearing in front of the House Intel Committee and special Counsel Robert Mueller investigation is heating up. Hes now gathering evidence that a secret meeting in the seychelles before the inauguration was meant to establish a back channel between the Incoming Administration and the kremlin. Okay. To walk us through all of this, joining me now is white house nbc news correspondent kelly odonnell. Kelly, lets start with the an...

With this pardon, the president though did what george w. Bush would not do. Bush commuted libbys sentence. He did not grant him a pardon. Also breaking this hour nbc news confirms that Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein has told confidants that he is prepared to be fired. What a dichotomy there. As the president launches a Public Campaign against the doj officials, insiders say rosenstein is fully aware he may soon his lose job and is at peace with the possibility. Today i spoke with one tr...

Three defense lawyers working for the president s campaign chair, Paul Manafort, and Paul Manafort himself, and Paul Manafort himself whos in the courtroom too. So they started with an arraignment. You remember that Paul Manafort was justed charge ad few days ago with new felony charges. An arraignment is where you stand up in court and face the charges against you and say whether you are pleading guilty or not guilty. Thats what they did first, the arraignment. Courtroom deputy, are you paul j....

Mulvaney is currently trumps budget director and was until recently simultaneously the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was originally the brainchild of elizabeth warren. The announcement that mulvaney will get his third Trump Administration position comes after trump spent the week pretty much flailing around publicly looking for someone, anyone to take the chief of staff job, after his first choice following the departure of john kelly unexpectedly and embarrassingly turne...

Just asking. Lets start with that i am etch p impeachment push. Doing double duty on capitol hill today. Clearly it is vacation season. Theres a high likelihood it is not going anywhere. What are republicans hoping to do . Mark maude doueadows and othersg this. Reporter this move by the congressional allies at the very least ensures that the first serious talk of i am speechment here on the hill is focused on someone other than President Trump. Youve got mark meadows and jim jordan and other mem...

We start with an arraignment. Paul manafort you remember was charged just a few days ago with new felony charges. An arraignment is where you stand up in court and face the charges against you and say whether you are pleading guilty or not guilty. Thats what they did first, the arraignment. Courtroom deputy, are you paul j. Manafort jr. . Defendant Paul Manafort, i am. Courtroom deputy, are you the person named in the superseding indictment . Defendant Paul Manafort, i am. Courtroom deputy, you ...